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Inspirational Quotes by Lorrie Moore
- There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
- Most things good for writing are bad for life.
- You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
- Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
- It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.
- Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
- You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.
- I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.
- I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.
- All the world's a stage we're going through.
- Nothing's a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.
- Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.
- She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?
- She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.
- We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.
- Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so…
- I wondered about the half-life of regret.
- Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
- Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
- I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.
- I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.
- They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
- One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento